UPDATE: Thursday, Nov. 1: The Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research is now open. ALL classes, professional development, meetings, and NELI sessions scheduled for Friday and Saturday will be held at the school. UPDATE: Tuesday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m.:Power has been restored to Bryn Mawr’s main campus and classes will be held as […]

The Bryn Mawr Film Institute interviewed Asscociate Professor of Russian Tim Harte about the recent retrospective co-sponsored by Bryn Mawr’s Russian Department on the films of Aleksei Guerman. The interview appears on the BMFI blog. Harte’s research interests center on 20th-century Russian literature, film, and culture.

President Jane McAuliffe is holding her annual Halloween pumpkin carving from 5:30-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30. at Pen y Groes (President’s house). Hot apple cider will be served. For pictures from last year’s, see the slideshow below.

Stephanie Tse ’13 has received a Student Travel Award to attend the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS) in San Jose, Ca., on Nov. 7-11. The award offers undergraduate and post baccalaureate students the opportunity to participate in one of the nation’s premier scientific meetings. Now in its 12th year, ABRCMS is the […]

Former professor and field hockey coach Jenepher Shillingford and Letty Thall, M.S.S. ’74, were honored with Philadelphia Leadership Awards by Women’s eNews. The awards are given to those who have dedicated their lives to improving the lives of women. They received recognition at a Gala held on Oct. 23 at Bryn Mawr’s Thomas Great Hall. […]

Deborah Ahenkorah ’10 will be speaking to Bryn Mawr and Haverford students next week on the subjects of social entrepreneurship and opportunities for international exchange for Bi-Co students. Ahenkorah founded the Golden Baobab Prize as an undergraduate in 2008, and was named a 2011 Echoing Green Fellow for her work with African children’s literature. The […]

Halloween festivities will be held for the children of faculty, staff, students, and their friends on Oct. 30. The undergraduate Residence Council will be sponsoring trick-or-treating in the residences halls from 4:30-6 p.m. All dorms participating will have balloons at the front doors. Following the trick-or-treating, a Halloween Party will take place in Thomas Great […]

The following email was sent to staff by Director of Human Resources Joe Bucci on Wednesday, Oct. 17: Dear Staff: I am pleased to announce that the College will be offering another session of our supervisory training program called “Supervisory Survival Kit: Tools for an Effective Workplace.” Participating in this program will help you and […]

The Bryn Mawr Russian Department, the Russian Language Flagship Programs, and Bryn Mawr’s Film Studies Program will be sponsoring a retrospective of the films by celebrated Russian director Aleksei Guerman, Sr. at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute. Born in 1938, Guerman began making films at the urging of his father, a well-known Soviet writer, and […]